Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 25th, and determined to issue a call for a State Convention to be held on the 25th of next February. The following is the official rote of Nebraska: Cobb, Supreme Judge, 25,286 plurality ; Carson, for Regent of the University, majority; Garnett, Regent, 266 majority. These were the Republican candidates- Weaver, Pound, Post, Barnes and Gavlin, Republicans, and Savage, Democrat, were elected District Judges, Ja Washington special of the 28th says the belief was fast becoming general among army officers there that a severe Indian war is impending. A gentleman who ■ had recently returned from the West, and who had lived for three years among the Indians, had said that there would be more Indian fighting during the next year than since the'Seminole war. lOn the 26th William H. Vanderbilt sold to a syndicate,'' composed of Drexel, Morgan A Co., of New York, and of 8. Morgan, of London, $25,001,000 of New York Central and Hidsoa River Railroad stock at 120. For this Mr. Vanderbilt received $15,000,000 in Government bonds, and will receive a like amount later. This is the largest stock sale ever consummated in this country. Mr. Vanderbilt will retain the management of the Central. % General Francis Walker, Superintendent of the Census, In hfs annual report, Says the Census law enacted at the last regular session of Congress is found to be thoroughly satisfactory in its practical working, and be recommend’* only two minor changes , —that the franking privilege be extended to communications addressed to the Census Office, and that inquiry relating to holders of the public debt be omitted from the population schedule as useless and aggravating. The Attorney General stated on the 24th to the Washington correspondent of the Chicago InUr-Ormn that without any amendment to the Constitution Congress can pass an act for the protection of trade-marks which will not be open to any of the Objections on accouut of which the Supreme Court iield the present law unconstitutional. In #ie opinion of the Attorney General, the fault with ilie act declared unconstitutional was in its form and detail, amt the Constitution docs not deny protection to trade-mark property.'.

The Assistant Attorney-General for the Poet-Office Department has given an opinion to the Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral to the effect that lottery letters reaching the Dead-Letter office may be returned to the senders, and that a letter must be Addressed to a lottery agent, as such, to warrant its detention. The Postmaster-Gen-eral, in accordance with this decision, has directed that lottery letters be returned to the senders. The suit in the District of Columbia against the Postmaster-General was, on the 26th, certified to the Supreme Court of the United States. Several witnesses who were former employes in the Custom House at New Or- *- leans testified before the Kellogg-Spofford Investigating Committee on the 24th to the effect that money had been {laid to secure the election of Senator Kellogg. Denis- Kearney, the San Francisco agitator, was fined twenty dollars in the San Francisco Pblice Court on the 24th, for carrying concealed deadly wcafions.. The charge of disturbing a public meeting was continued. V • < Mr. Gladstone made a furious attack on Lord Beaconsficld at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 25tli. in which he characterised the Premier a* a veteran trickster and political posturcr, devoted to hi* own selfish interests regardless of the true interests of the realm. pkvitt, another of the alleged -agitators, was held to bail for trial in the sum of s’Ltoooh the 25th. ' , An alarm of fire in a St. LoUis < school building on the 26th caused a stampede among the teachers and pupils. In the mad rush for the street a dozen scholars were badly trampled upon and Injured, and a very much larger number received slight hurts. A L°s Pinos telegram received • at Lake City, Col., on the 27th says thafl|fct the meeting of the Commission on the rcported the arrival the night before of a runner from Douglas’ camp, with information that, owing to the advance of the troops, the L intahs had left the agency and the reservation to join Douglas, pre;>ared to fight; that the White River Utes declined to return, and Jack had sent word that he would not come to the agency until the Uintahs’ trouble was settled. Some of the Commission donbted this rfeport, believing it a rose to save time, ' nr that the Mormons were at the bottom of it. Should it prove true the work of the Commission would for the jiresent be a failure. At the municipal election in Providence, Ik 1., a few days ago, Thomas A. I>ojle, Republican, was elected Mayor for the fifteenth time, receiving 2,923 votes to 2,648 h»r his opponent. The vote on granting.license to sell intoxicating liquors was 2,101 in favor of, and 1.-atiO against, such license. Several witnesses in Kellogg’s behalf were examined before the Kelloge-Spofford Committee at -New Orleans on the 26th and 27th. They denied that they were bribed to vote for Senator Kellogg, and one of them stated that he had not dared for two years, on account of his polities, to visit the parish w here his family lived. On cross-examina-tion the same witness admitted tha^he had been accused of murder, but was sure it was his Republicanism that le*l the people of his pariah to* threaten him should he return there. v

Late advices from the Arctic regions aretiot encouraging f or the success.of the cxpcdttimi of the Jeannette. It was feared the ship would freeze up in the |«ck-ice and have to be abandoned! A whaling bark which arrived at Bau Francisco on the 27th from the Arctic Ocean broiight the officers and crew of a bark abandoned in the ice on the 24th of October and another vessel frozen in near by. \ Dublin dispatch of the 28th anno nees the murdSr of a bailifT who was executing some processes on a farmer near Sneer, Countjr Kerry. - * Killen, the hist of the three Sligo agitators, has been also held to bail for trial Intelligence reached Constantinople VnWhT tbe m^*cre of Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha and almost the whole of his command, by the Arnouts, at Uusingi. The porte-monnaie of Mrs. Meeker, f°“ t * i 1 nl , n £ thirty-one dollars, taken from her by Chief Douglas at the time of her capture was to Los Pinos Agency on the Joth, Douglas sending it by a runner to Chief Ouray, who delivered ft to Agefet Stanley. Before the Spofford-Kellogg lnv’estipwting Committee on the 2Sth one of the witnesses—a discharged employe of the Internal * Revenue Office— testified that Morris Marks had told him that he “could not take care of his own friends whilst this fight wai being made on Kellogg; that he had appointed edm to keep them from ‘squealing' on Kellogg." A letter put in evidence on the 27th denying that the writer (one Milon) had signed an affidavit against Kellogg was acknowledged "by Milon. and a comparison of B S*L Ure * ® h ° Wed tUt h * not sign he affidavit. The Manager of the Western* In ion Telegraph Company stated that the demand on him for dispatches called for only those delivered to Mr. Kellogg, and that those from that gentleman had recently shipped to New York by order of Superintendent Merriweather. Louisville, Ky , was visited by a tornado on the morning of the 28th. Two or three dozen houses were unroofed and otherwise injured, and there was a wide-spread destruction of trees, fences sn<j shrubbery. The loss was about * in,030 «.